02 Jul 2026
SpaceX fires up all 6 of Starship's engines ahead of 13th test flight (video)
Less than a week after its last test, SpaceX's latest Starship spacecraft went back to the stand for engine checkouts ahead of a coming test flight. The upper stage for SpaceX's giant Starship rocket, referred to simply as 'Ship' — Ship 40, in this case — underwent a static-fire test of all six of its Raptor engines at the company's Massey site in Starbase, Texas.
02 Jul 2026
Underwater Ribbon-Cutting Ushers In New URI Ocean Robotics Laboratory
The University of Rhode Island celebrated a major milestone in the $300 million, multi-phase revitalization of the Narragansett Bay Campus with a unique ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Ocean Robotics Laboratory last week.
02 Jul 2026
Microsoft faces investor concerns over Copilot’s technological lag
Microsoft built one of the most ambitious AI products in enterprise history, wrapped it inside the world’s most widely used productivity suite, and handed it to 450 million potential customers. Somehow, less than 4.5% of those customers are actually paying for it. That number, current as of May 2026, is the quiet center of a very loud investor concern. And it helps explain why Microsoft shed $357…
02 Jul 2026
iPhone Fold could help raise average foldable phone prices by 18%, per report
According to Counterpoint Research, Apple’s entry into the foldable smartphone market will be one of the factors driving an 18% increase in average sale prices in the category in 2026. Here are the details.
02 Jul 2026
CMU robotics team and ‘snakebots’ assist Venezuelan earthquake victims
Beatriz Gonzalez was looking for help. From her home in Atlanta, she watched with horror as her native country of Venezuela was ripped apart June 24, the nation’s worst earthquake disaster in more than a century.
02 Jul 2026
Industrial robotics becomes the proving ground for physical AI
What to expect during the Machina AI summit: Join theCUBE July 7 Physical artificial intelligence is becoming an industrial robotics problem. The market is shifting from software-only automation toward machines that must sense , decide and act in physical settings. That raises the bar for safety, economics and reliability, especially as companies such as Nvidia Corp. help shape the compute and…
02 Jul 2026
New iFixit video shows how an iPhone battery is made
In a video published today on its YouTube channel, iFixIt shows the surprisingly analog process of fully assembling and testing an iPhone battery.
02 Jul 2026
Another mysterious iPhone bug is eating up over 100GB of some people’s storage — here’s how to fix it
Reddit users have complained of a worrying storage ‘bug’ in iOS This sees the System Data category eat up huge amounts of storage Fortunately, there are several ways to fix this problem
02 Jul 2026
Maybe robots don't need legs or fingers to do laundry — Weave Robotics Isaac 1 isn't pretty or super-humanoid, but it might be ready to handle basic chores
Weave Robotics Isaac 1 is now on pre-order. It promises to autonomously handle basic household chores. The roughly $8,000, legless robot arrives in the US first.
